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Tinubu Grants Presidential Clemency, Relocates Mercy Secretariat to Justice Ministry — Vatsa, Saro-Wiwa Among Beneficiaries
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the Instruments of Clemency and Pardons, officially invoking his constitutional powers under Section 175 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to grant pardon, clemency, and commutation of sentences to selected individuals.
Tinubu Grants Historic Pardons: Herbert Macaulay, Vatsa, Ogoni 9, Lawan Cleared
In an unprecedented gesture of national reconciliation and justice reform, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted historic presidential pardons to several prominent Nigerians, including Herbert Macaulay, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, and the Ogoni Nine, while also approving clemency for 82 inmates and commuting seven death sentences to life imprisonment.